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...Orchestra (Zack Laurence conducting; RCA quadradisc, $5.98). The cover of this album shows a James Bond type suspended by rope above an alarm-rigged floor making a heist of some bejeweled busts of the great composers. The first track is called The People, Yes, and turns out to be Chopin's Revolutionary Etude done up in the sex and violence of an 007 film's sound track. Ludwig's Gig is a lush snippet from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; Superjoy, an electronically extravagant "lift" of Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring; Wild...
...those who regard Mendelssohn's music as precious and superficial. It is true that Mendelssohn could not, like Schubert, say "My music is the product of my genius and my misery." He knew no misery, neglect or disappointment, neither the gloom of Beethoven nor the melancholy of Chopin. The Reformation Symphony, for example, is religiosity at its most cloying, and Elijah, tender as its pastoral moments are, simply does not convey the full might of its subject. What Mendelssohn did know about was order, proportion, logic and joy. He was a better orchestrator than either Schumann or Brahms...
...auspicious moment in history for the birth of composers. Within a four-year period (1809 to 1813), in addition to Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner and Verdi were born...
LOWELL HOUSE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM: Daniel McCrimons performs Bach, Chopin and Schumann...
...sinewy frame of a prizefighter and the finely chiseled, romantic head of a Chopin. Yet fellow dancers sometimes openly laugh at his exaggerated, stalking movements and the way his arms tend to undulate like reeds under a river. Technically, he is solidly schooled, and his physical embodiment of a musical line is superb. Yet one choreographer, sardonically noting the audience roars and whistles that greet his appearances, says: "I think he goes onstage with only one mission: to present himself as a salable commodity. He tends to relegate everything else to second place...